I’ve been toying with the idea of going to school to study philosophy, but thought I should do some reading before hand to see if it’s something I really want to peruse.
I would love your recommendations for where to start reading philosophy. I would like to read all kinds!
I would appreciate recommendations for books that are philosophical in nature and provoke deep thought, but maybe aren’t marketed as philosophy books. And also some classic, fundamental philosophy’s as well. (If that is correct phrasing?) And/or any philosophy a beginner who has an interest should really read or start out with.
Thanks!
by uhm_reeeeeet
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*The Tao of Pooh*
If you like history I recommend the Dawn of everything. I’m still pretty new to philosophy, I just got anti oedopus, I’ve also read capitalist realism but I wouldn’t recommend it to start with cause it’s a bit confusing. There’s also Robert sapolsky’s new book which looks interesting. Most of the stuff I like is political and more niche so I don’t know much outiside of that. There are a lot of classics as well that are probably worth reading but I’m not as interested in those, but I probably should read at least a few.
Sophie’s World
*Does the Center Hold*
For fiction: *Sophies World*
*What Does It All Mean?* By Nagel was my intro book. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
*The Problems of Philosophy* by Russell is a, possibly the, classic intro.
Both of these will give you an idea of what you’d study as a student and ways you’d learn to analyse problems.
I haven’t read them but they’re on my list and seem fun. Perhaps someone else can give you (and me!) their thoughts on them:
– “Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar” by Cathcart and Klein
– “Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It”by Klein
Who Am I? And If So, How Many? – Richard David Precht
However this is marked as a Philosophy book, but it is meant as a quick peek into many subjects of Philosophy and made me completely obsessed with it.
With this book you will also get some ideas what interests you and where to go next
I think the first part of Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey is philosophical. The Open Library page is [here](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12284524W/Ending_Aging?edition=key%3A/books/OL17932740M).
Readers interested in the philosophy of mind and consciousness will find ‘The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory’ by David Chalmers to be a fascinating read. Chalmers’ argument for the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness and his exploration of what it means to be conscious are both enlightening and challenging.